According to the new novel by Nobel laureate Dario Fo, however, this is nothing but “creative embroidery in the fine art of scandalmongering.”

Although the movie could have served to shoot down any number of tabloid rumors, Chu says “Believe” was never intended as a rejoinder to scandalmongering.

I am Aaron Burr, of New York, a name pretty widely known and much bandied about in these scandalmongering days.